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After a two-win campaign last spring, the Eminence baseball team will open the season playing at Anderson County next Tuesday night. Anderson is coming off a 20-win season (20-13) and beat Eminence, 17-1 in five innings in the opener last year.

Following a record-breaking season in which Henry County track athletes qualified for the KHSAA State Championship in 11 different events, the Wildcats look to build on last year’s success with 60 athletes listed on the roster.

Highlighted by Travis Farmer’s third-place finish in the pole vault, there were seven Henry County athletes who qualified for the state meet last June. The Henry County boys finished 18th in Class 2-A, the Henry County girls finished 25th, and they capped off what might have been the best season ever for the track team.

Monday morning after Selection Sunday is always my favorite morning of the year — time to pencil in those picks, which I’m certain are going to be 100-percent accurate with each guess. I nod with satisfaction as I scribble in teams to the right.

A packed gym inside Henry County High School watched the Oldham County Colonels handle Spencer County with ease last Tuesday night in the boys’ 8th Region championship game, winning 70-50 to claim the title and advance to the state tournament.

Spencer was going after its first-ever trip to state, but instead Oldham will be making its 14th. Former Henry County coach Jason Holland earned his first ticket to the state tournament, and Oldham will be there for the first time since 2007.

Henry County High School’s most productive wide receiver of all time who was also the top receiver in Class 3-A this season has decided on a college, picking Kentucky Wesleyan to continue his football career.

Henry County senior Justin Harlage narrowed his list to just three schools — Kentucky Wesleyan, Pikeville College and Union College — and in the end went with the Panthers. He made it official with a signing inside the high school’s Media Room on Friday.

Trent Lucas didn’t give playing golf in college much thought until Willie and Kathy Peyton told him it was an option this past fall — now the Henry County senior has signed with the St. Catharine College Patriots.

Willie is the boys’ coach at HCHS, his wife Kathy is the girls’ coach, and both are familiar with St. Catharine coach Joan Rizer and her program. They talked to Lucas about playing for the Patriots, and he ended up taking that route versus attending Eastern University or Georgetown College and not playing golf.

Ending the season in dramatic fashion, the Henry County boys’ basketball team was close to advancing to the 8th Region tournament championship game but instead took a 34-32 loss to Oldham County in the semifinals on Monday night.

The host Wildcats led for more than 29 of the 32-minute game, and were in front by 10 points with less than one minute remaining in the third quarter. But the Colonels, led by former Henry coach Jason Holland, closed the gap thanks to a 10-0 spurt in the final quarter and went ahead for good with 2:55 left in the game.